I don't see how I handled this wrong

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27 Feb 2012, 1:38 am

I was over at my uncles house with some family. Seeing the time, I realized a basketball game I wanted to watch had started. He had a hockey game on.
I asked if we could watch the basketball game, and he said sure after the hockey game is over. So I asked his wife if we could tape it, and she was fine with that, wasn't messing with anything. My uncle immediatly asked her what are you doing? we were just going to watch the last few minutes of hockey (which had 15 minutes left) then switch it over, don't worry about it.

Oh and my uncle does not care for basketball at all. I am fine with that except for that he repeatedly says this during basketball season. I almost started to panic that I wouldn't get to watch the game because of it.

The hockey game lasted a half hour and then we switched it over. My uncle wanted to have control of the remote for fast forwarding of commercials, but he doesn't even like basketball, and he told me to relax everytime I reminded him since he wasn't paying attention. Towards the end of the game I realized the recording wouldn't be long enough so I asked him to extend the recording.

We ended up not seeing the last 30 seconds of the game, which was important for who won. If he had let me fast forward like I wanted to instead of telling me to relax and similar comments, or if he new how to operate his dvr then we would have been able to see it. My mom did not like that I said the dvr part out loud, even though he probably didn't hear me.

I just was really frustrated with the situation, I could not handle it how I wanted to and I got scolded for it.

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27 Feb 2012, 3:23 am

The annoying thing about people is that even when you do everything right you can still get a bad result. Though there could be something you left out, I can't see anything you did here as 'wrong'. It seems to me that your uncle was the one in the wrong here.

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27 Feb 2012, 3:36 am

I do agree that your uncle wasn't being very nice about this, but you are forgetting something. It is his house, his TV, his DVR, and his remote control. If you don't have a DVR at home, you should get one, and then set it to record programs that you want to see while you will be away from home. That way you won't miss anything, but will just have to put up with a delay in getting to watch stuff.

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27 Feb 2012, 6:39 am

questor wrote:

This. Also, you say yourself it's the last bit that's important, so it was kind of unfair to ask him to miss the last half hour of his game.

(but on the grand scheme of things, this is just insignificant fight over the remote. It's not worth worrying about, just remember you need to play by other peoples' rules in their houses

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27 Feb 2012, 12:38 pm

LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES - YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET UNTIL YOU TAKE A BITE.

Next time - turn on your recorder before you leave home and record it for yourself and then you won't have to worry about who won or lost.
The good thing is they play lot's of games and no one game is all that important.

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